Amazon Application Engineer World Wide Grocery Store Tech Payments 

United States, Texas, Austin 

512027875

Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, distributed systems that power critical WWGST services. Drive architectural decisions and best practices across teams to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance of mission-critical applications. Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into innovative technical solutions.Evaluate and integrate technologies and frameworks to drive innovation and improve processes.Mentor junior engineers to elevate quality and promote best practices. Participate in capacity planning and performance. Troubleshoot complex issues in production environments, performing root cause analysis and implementing robust solutions.Champion a culture of operational excellence through monitoring, logging, and alerting best practices. Participate in on-call rotations to ensure high availability and rapid incident response for critical systems. Continuously improve system resilience.Key job responsibilities
Plays a lead role in design and development efforts for significant initiatives and across major segments of the organization.Leads projects to design, develop, test, deploy, and support applications, interfaces and design integrations using a variety of tools and environments.Engages with application developers to identify new design, coding, and other system / methodology best practices.
Identifies new technologies that by applied within WWGST and help improve systems and processes overall.A day in the life
As an IT Application Engineer for international POS systems, your day centers on driving operational excellence within our SAFe framework. You'll tackle a prioritized backlog of improvements for UK and Canadian stores, focusing on system performance, and reliability. Collaborating with vendors and cross-functional teams, you'll progress high-priority items while providing daily support for critical POS functions. You'll participate in SAFe ceremonies, and engage in architecture discussions. Your expertise will be crucial in mentoring junior members and translating stakeholder requirements into innovative technical solutions that propel our global retail operations forward.

BA/BS degree and 3-6 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

MS degree and 6-8 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.